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It’s a grey, miserable day – have a picture of Sarah McIntyre’s new book….
Just because it’s a lovely, happy image on a rather miserably grey day with rain sheeting down here – Sarah McIntyre’s next children’s book, written by Gillian Rogerson: When King Cupcake is kidnapped by hungry aliens, it’s up to his feisty daughter, Princess Spaghetti, to save him from becoming their dinner. She blasts off into space [...]
Continue reading...The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart
Friday, November 20, 2009
Orbit has this little teaser video for what I can only describe as one of the most unusual fantasy novels I’ve read in recent years, Jesse Bullington’s The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, which they’ve just released this month. I’d never come across anything by Bullington before but there are times when you pick [...]
Continue reading...Boilerplate – a mechanical marvel that never really existed….
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett Abrams Image Boilerplate is a fascinating concept – a mockumentary coffee table book dealing with the heroic exploits of Boilerplate – a Victorian Era mechanical man. He crops up everywhere from his creation in 1893 until his disappearance in 1918; possibly making it to the South Pole way [...]
Continue reading...Moorcock Who?
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Oh yes, on the Multiverse forum, Michael Moorcock reports the following: “Looks like it’s official. I’ll be doing a new Dr Who novel (not a tie-in) for appearance, I understand, by next Christmas. Still have to have talks etc. with producers and publishers but we should be signing shortly. Should be fun.” I don’t know about you [...]
Continue reading...The New Vampire’s Handbook – now we’re definitely looking at Christmas.
Friday, November 13, 2009
The New Vampire’s Handbook by Joe Garden, Anita Serwacki, Janet Ginsburg, Chris Pauls, and Scott Sherman Square Peg A sure sign that Christmas is coming – novelty adult stocking filler books begin to dominate the shelves of your local book megastore. Which explains the existence of The New Vampire’s Handbook. It’s one of those books that come just [...]
Continue reading...Dragonology – is it Christmas already?
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Drakes Comprehensive Compendium Of Dragonology Templar Publishing I was sent this book to review after reviewing Shaun Tan’s Tales From Outer Suburbia. It was a bit of a surprise, as it’s hardly comics related. But, if Templar are kind enough to send me the book, the least I can do is have a look. And to be honest, [...]
Continue reading...Getting Cultured – Banksie heading for the big screen?
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
There’s been a fair bit of talk on various science fiction and movie sites about the possibility that one of bestselling author Iain M Banks‘ Culture tales could be headed for a movie adaptation. I’ve double checked with Iain and he’s confirmed that a deal has indeed been struck for the short story A Gift [...]
Continue reading...PW’s books of the year
Monday, November 2, 2009
Publisher’s Weekly has posted up its annual best 100 books of the year list (yes, its now November – already?! – and we’re moving into that time of year when we’ll all be talking about our faves of the year). Nestling among the entries is the unusual European bestseller which recently came out in English [...]
Continue reading...Fleece Station, Banal Pigs and Manky Monster news….
Saturday, October 31, 2009
And if you understand that title, well done, you’ve been reading the FPI blog for a long time – maybe we need long service badges? First up: The latest Panel Borders podcast concludes a month long series of shows on “collectives and anthologies” with Dickon Harris chatting to the Banal Pig pairing of Steve Tillotson [...]
Continue reading...Salem Brownstone – Just your usual art-deco gothic fantasy children’s book…
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Salem Brownstone – All Along The Watchtowers by John Hattis Dunning and Nikhil Singh Walker Books “A wonderfully imaginative and stylish piece of work and a perfect example of the adventurous new directions that comic books should be taking in the future.” Alan Moore. That Alan Moore quote on the back of this children’s book pretty much sums up [...]
Continue reading...DFC Books – a little more information….
Saturday, October 24, 2009
News is leaking out slowly over the DFC Books announced last week. (I’m not going back over our DFC coverage – start here and have a look for yourselves.) Covers to the first three books of the DFC library are above. They’re being released as Euro-album sized hardbacks starting in 2010 with Good Dog, [...]
Continue reading...Paul Cornell interviewed
Monday, October 19, 2009
Comics scribe and novelist Paul Cornell is interviewed by fellow comics and SF&F writer Keith R.A. DeCandido on the Chronic Rift podcast; the link to play the show is on the right of the CR site’s post. (thanks to Matt B for the heads-up). In related news Paul can also be found on the Marvel [...]
Continue reading...Cast your vote for the annual SFX Awards
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Voting is now open in the annual awards from Blighty’s top selling science fiction mag SFX. Actually they opened a number of days ago and I clean forgot to post a link up to it, but as they voting is open until 5th December there’s still plenty of time to consider who you will cast [...]
Continue reading...Read The Art Of Charles Vess – for free!
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Dark Horse Comics have the entire Art Of Charles Vess book; Drawing Down The Moon available as an free e-book over at their website. It is, a you would expect from Charles Vess, absolutely beautiful stuff and in what looks like a delightfully lavish hardback book due out in December. By all means go to [...]
Continue reading...Peter F Hamilton talks
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
One of the UK’s best exponents of huge-scale space opera science fiction, Peter F Hamilton, answers questions sent in by readers as the paperback edition of the second of his massive Void trilogy series, The Temporal Void, hits the shelves. In typical Peter style it is an enormous book and yet still skips by at [...]
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